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While Sister Walsh and the Vatican are not at all pleased with the goings on at rentapriest.com, not everyone in the Church shares their point of view. Louise Haggett remembers the time she shared a ride from the airport with a bishop. She couldn?t resist posing an ostensibly rhetorical...
China is a friend of the U.S., Powell insisted. Not a competitor. The countries may have differences, but they also have an overriding interest in working together to improve their relationship. That's familiar talk to anyone following China policy, even if it is a shift in tone for the...
Sarbanes, who usually greets the Fed chairman with bared teeth at these things, opened the hearing by cross-examining Greenspan on one particularly quotable passage in his remarks, a rhetorical question whether the Fed had "the capability to eliminate booms and busts in economic activity? Can fiscal and monetary policy...
Even if they had laid down some proposals as a rhetorical tool, as a placeholder, they might have had a chance. But now that composition of the Senate has changed, and the now that the tax cut took so much out of the budget, there's just not enough money...
Arroyo, say aides, was shattered. Earlier, Abu Sayyaf, a group that uses an Islamic banner to justify kidnapping, massacres and extortion, had given the President 48 hours to accept a Malaysian businessman as negotiator. After that, Abu Sayyaf threatened, it would start killing the hostages. With the clock ticking away...